Northrop B-2A The 70 Billion Dollar Bomber? Northrop’s batlike B-2A Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB) has become the focus of a political debate of an intensity unseen since McNamara’s management debacle with the GD F-111 program. The principal issue is one of cost versus benefit, the $US70 billion tag for the program is seen by critics

MD 530N Has Successful First Flight The McDonnell Douglas Notarhelicopter made its first flight on December 29, 1989. The maiden flight is the first of a conventional production single rotor helicopter without a tail rotor for anti-torque and directional control, said Project Manager Jim Van Horn. “Except for the introduction of turbine engines to helicopters,

Very Fast Train Concept Heralds Significant Implications for Air Transport Propelled by significant advances in fast rail technology and an ever more congested domestic air transport system, the concept of very fast trains (VFTI is beginning to herald the coming of a new dawn for the railways as they begin to emerge as short haul

Kitty Hawk News The Col Pay P-40E Kittyhawk has flown. On December 15 Col’s P-40E, appropriately registered VH-KTH made a brief ten minute flight at Scone, NSW, followed by an hour long flight the next day. Col Pay who made the first flights reports that the Curtiss handles “Okay”. It was an historic day as